458 Hercynia
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458 Hercynia is an asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

. It was discovered by Max Wolf
Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...

 and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann
Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann
Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann was a German astronomer.He was co-discoverer with Arno Arthur Wachmann of the periodic comets 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, and with Arno Arthur Wachmann and Leslie Peltier of the non-periodic comet C/1930 D1 ....

on September 21, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FK.
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